The Office: Heavy Competition, 5.24
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 | 143 comments
W: Ryan Koh, D: Ken Whittingham
Summary (NBC): Dwight’s loyalty to Michael is tested when he finds a new hero in Charles (guest star Idris Elba). Meanwhile, Andy tries to provide for all of Jim’s emotional needs.
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Favorite quotes
Pam: Turns out there’s no limit to the number of cheese puffs you can throw at someone’s face.
Pam: The timeline’s messy.
Jim: Now we are going bargain hunting in the haunted graveyard of their love.
Pam: Am I walking down the aisle to ‘You Can Call Me Al’?
Andy: Trust me, you will not be walking, you will be boogie-ing.
Dwight: Doesn’t Charles know he’s compromising my attack readiness? It’s not a dress code, it’s a death sentence.
Jim: I think she just didn’t want a crucifx cake.
Andy: I know a few things about love. Horrible, terrible, awful, awful things.
Pam: I’m here. I’m part of this now.
Dwight: I prefer to stand. Less blood clots.
Charles: I like your work ethic. You’re so … focused.
Michael: Is it Mose? Did you put the cover on that well?
Michael: You respect dibs, don’t you?
Michael: Is the cool new guy Charles? Is it Stanley?
Jim: I’m pretty emotionally needy.
Andy: Let me be your traveling pants.
Michael: I … understand … nothing.
Michael: I got hit in the face with a pee-filled water balloon.
Andy: Tuna, be nice to my friend, Jim, okay?
Andy: So what? Your body’s a ten.
Dwight: I think you have the wrong number, Michael.
Michael: I am going to steal all of your clients, and then I am going to kill them in front of you.
Dwight: Oh look, everyone, we’re all making observations!
Ryan: Look at that old dude and his Rolodex go.
Dwight: It’s not exactly like ‘Highlander,’ but still.
Michael: Dwight, not now, we’ve been robbed.
Dwight: Their meatball parm is their worst sandwich!
Dwight: How is Brenda, age four, ponytail, and Simon, age seven?
Dwight: And on the back, he wrote, “Great salesman, better friend.” “Tall” and “Beets.”
Michael: It is like you are buying software from Bill Gates.
Dwight: Spin move!
Dwight: I barge because I care.
Dwight: Notice my persistence and recall.
Michael: Orange means “orange you glad I didn’t bring it up?”
Dwight: How is Tom, the homosexual sophomore?
Michael: What purpose did that serve, apart from abolishing slavery?
Rating
In a poll conducted April 16-20, Tallyheads rated this episode: 8.66/10
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michael does know how to stick up for himself. “i brought you into this world and i can take you out. bill cosby”.
Am I the only person who LOVED the scene at the very end of the episode when Michael answers the phone with a mouth full of cheese-puffs?? It’s hysterical!! But why can’t I find clips of it on youtube or nbc???
Oh how I love this show.
Great Episode. Still not sure about new MSPC but i still loved the episode. Cannot wait 4 Michael 2 be back as RM at DM
I feel like it had been a long time since an episode of The Office made me really and truly laugh out loud. This episode definitely did that, though. I have a good feeling about the last few episodes of the season!
Welcome to the community, Vicky87! Hopefully we’ll be seeing you around more!
Loved it…the writing was brilliant. You can take Michael, Pam and Ryan out of DM, but you can’t take DM out of them. The characters just shined.
For me, the humour in season 5 is found even more in the subtleties. Sometimes just the smallest little jokes kill me, for example, Dwight telling Michael there were some “good kitchen ideas” in the Bed and Breakfast magazine. Of course most of these lines i only catch watching it the second time around. It sucks though because when i watch an episode for the first time, its not nearly as good as when i see it again. Such a great episode though, always love when Dwight betrays Michael.
The best episode of the season…possibly the best episode since season 3!
Michael’s response after taking a huge bite of the hoagie *yes, hoagie* he purchased for Dwight.
LOL! OMG, so funny… WOW.
good episode, good laughs
“U!G!L!Y! You ain’t go no alibi! You UGLY! You momma say you UGLY!”
That part made me laugh so hard.
xD
this was by far the best episode.. i’m sure everyone was sick of hearing that lol.
I don’t watch the episode for necessarily laughs but I watch it for just plot twists and I guess I got attached to the characters and now I wonder how their lives would take turns here and there. Maybe it’s just me.
Brilliant! An instant classic episode.
i love ryan’s hair!
First time poster on this site. Been visiting for a few months, though. I haven’t been an Office fan for long. I got into it in late August via the Season 4 reruns and have been catching every episode on TBS so I feel I’ve been a fan since the beginning. Totally addicted!
Anyway, this episode was definitely top notch in my book. This cast is excellent and it’s a blast watching them play their characters on a weekly basis.
I LOVED the cold open with the cheese puffs. Probably one of my all time faves.
There were so many great lines. Some of my faves was “I am going to steal all of your clients and then I am going to kill them in front of you” and “I brought you into this world and I can take you out. Bill Cosby.” The Michael/Dwight thing definitely seemed like The Coup, part 2.
And Jim’s line about not liking the face that looks back at him was hilarious as well as his little tantrum. I could not stop laughing!
One of the best eps this season, hands down!
This episode is awesome, it is been a long time since we had a funny one. I love it whenever Dwight turns on Michael and Michael doesn’t catch on quickly. Michael’s threat was hysterically funny. so many great moments. I hope the rest is as good as this.
This was one of my favs this season…for so many of the reasons already related.
I especially loved the open phone call from Michael to Dwight! Paper is the manure…
I love anything about JAM! I just loved loved loved it!
Great episodes. Ed Helms continues to prove he is amazingly funny.
And… “I’m going to steal all your clients and kill them in front of you”. SO funny.
#122 – I busted out laughing at your line about still waiting for Jim to acknowledge his trip to Australia!
LOL!! This is why I am not surprised we have heard zilch for wedding plans since they got engaged in the first episode this season. Hmm, a pretty major thing and it took 22 more episodes to finally hear something (for those of us that really are counting!)